Digital Resources Management: A Panacea for Digital Information Service Delivery in Nigerian Academic Libraries

Abstract

Rationale of Study – The purpose of this study was to examine the concept of digital resources management as a possible enabler of effective digital information service delivery in Nigerian academic libraries.

Methodology – A descriptive survey method was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised of eight hundred and forty-one (841)  librarians from 84 university libraries in Southern Nigeria. The entire population of 841 librarians was used in the study. Questionnaires were used to  collect data which was analysed using descriptive statistics.

Findings – The study found that, the types of digital information resources available for use in university libraries in Southern Nigeria are e-books,  e-journals, e-newspapers, e-magazines, websites, and OPAC; the digital information services being rendered to users in university libraries in Southern  Nigeria are e-mail and Internet based service among others.

Implications – This submission is a work by the researcher and to the best of the researcher’s knowledge contains no materials previously published or  written by another person.

Originality – Proper management of digital information resources using strategies such as normalisation, encapsulation, technology preservation,  refreshing, replication, migration and emulation will help to keep library digital information resources in good shape and will also assist the university  libraries to deliver effective digital information services to their users.